Wolves Updates 7/13

Matt Manley/Asbury Park Press on Randy Foye:  
While living in the area, he has tried to engrain a place in the
community by running camps, working with local players, and making the
45-minute drive north to Newark to participate in community-building
efforts in his hometown.
 
Foye will bring both his roots and his new neighborhood together at
Rumson Country DaySchool in early August, where he will run a
basketball camp for local young players as wel as a number of urban
players from both Asbury Park and Newark area, whom Foye said will
attend free of charge. Most of Foye’s charitable work is done through
the "The Randy Foye Foundation,” of which Foye is chairman and CEO.
 
"With a lot of the kids I come across, they just need to believe they
can make somethng of themselves,” Foye said. "So it’s not just about
teaching them basketball or telling them to stay in school, but to just
show them someone who came from where they came from and made it in
life.”
 
 
 
Scott Howard-Cooper/Sacramento Bee ranks the Wolves at #9 among the best young teams in the league.  
 
 
 
It only figured that the Timberwolves would do something strange in the
NBA Draft. They did, although they might well have avoided J.R. Rider
the Second by trading O.J. Mayo, and they could get a Beach Boys
concert out of the Kevin Love acquisition.
 
 
 
Teams most likely to move are the New Orleans Hornets, Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings.
 
"New Orleans moved once, and their lease is contingent on attendance
and economic factors," Reichard said. "Sacramento has always been the
team mentioned to move, and they’ve been fighting for a new arena for
close to 10 years now. Memphis is already struggling with attendance
after a few years."
 
Speculation also continues to swirl around the Charlotte Bobcats,
Milwaukee Bucks and Minnesota Timberwolves about the long-term plans in
their respective cities.
 
  
 
Got into town this afternoon, just in time to shuttle between O.J.
Mayo’s game with Memphis upstairs at the Cox Pavilion and the Wolves’
evening practice downstairs. The Wolves don’t play a game until Monday,
but there’s lots of familiar faces with 21 teams here…
  
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